Her parents' deaths...were not accidents, but murders!
Lee Byung-seung frowned and stared at her, seeing her eyes brimming with tears. He sighed and continued listening to the recording.
“One night a week before the car accident, I remember your mother went to Shenzhen and Hong Kong on a business trip. She asked me to go to the Wen residence to pick up some things for her. I heard that at the time!”
Wen Zaosi… Wen Zaosi was on the phone with a woman! They were talking about tampering with something! I tried to hear more clearly, but Wen Zaosi's daughter found out! I was in a hurry to leave, so I didn't even take the small things that girl had stolen.”
"Nothing happened for the next few days, so I didn't pay much attention. It wasn't until my lost son was found that I took leave to go look for him. When I came back, it was already...it was already..."
"At that time, I didn't realize that something was wrong. It wasn't until Wen Zaosi came to me and threatened me with my son that I realized that the car accident was not an accident!"
“But I had no choice! My son was born with a heart condition, and Wen Zaosi threatened me with the heart transplant donor! I… I had no choice! I could only agree! I was confused at the time! I only thought that Yanze and Xiaoqie were already dead! I was afraid that they would kill me and my son too! So… so I took the money and, as they said, hid abroad.”
"I'm sorry, Ranran! I'm so sorry! I was cowardly and weak! I was greedy for wealth!"
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
"..."
The man continued to apologize in a hoarse and unpleasant voice. Mu Yiran couldn't take it anymore, so she cut off the recording and covered her face tightly.
Li Bingcheng took a few breaths to calm himself down. Just as he was thinking about how to comfort her, he saw Mu Yiran standing up with her face wiped.
"...Fucked bastards! I'm going to kill them..."
"..."
Li Bingcheng was somewhat bewildered by her unpredictable behavior, while Mu Yiran had already lost control and started shouting.
"Why wasn't it recorded?! He's done with it already?! You're asking me to send you an apology letter without any evidence?"
Lee Byung-seung paused for a moment, but still tried to keep up with her pace, pointing to the recording pen.
"This is the evidence."
"This is a recording he used to carry with him when he was working. It contains the audio he recorded that night, including the voices of Wen Zaosi and the person he was talking to. Although it is short, it is very clear. If we compare the voiceprints, it can be used as evidence."
Mu Yiran quickly wiped her face, her expression expressionless. "I understand. I know people who can do these things. I'll go back now—"
"Wait!" Lee Byung-seung stopped her, somewhat helplessly, and asked cautiously, "So sudden...so perverted? Don't rush, I haven't finished yet."
“When Nianhua was awake, he also mentioned something. He said that if he remembered correctly, what Wen Qie asked him to take back then was some useless ornaments. Those ornaments should be the same as the brooch that your mother gave him that could record audio.”
"What's the meaning?"
“What I mean is…” Li Bingcheng pointed to the memory card containing the recording, “Wen Qingyu may have accidentally stolen some of these things back then, and there must have been recordings on them, otherwise your mother wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to get them from Nianhua.”
"…………"
Recording...recording?
Mu Yiran suddenly remembered a letter someone had given her; that person was Su Su.
After the girl publicly reported Wen Qingyu's misdeeds online, she obtained a study abroad qualification from the King's College of Design, an international design institute, with the help of Mu Yiran.
Shi Youxi also helped her bring her parents abroad for medical treatment. Before leaving, the girl told Wen Qingyu everything.
"I suspect that Wen Qingyu has something that can threaten Qi Qiulin. This thing must involve many people, and even Qi Qiulin and her mother have to be careful around her, but she has never taken it out."
What could such a thing be?
Mu Yiran nodded slowly, "...Such recordings might actually exist..."
"I'll go back and find it now, and I'll give you this recording soon."
"Ranran!" Li Bingcheng pulled her back, carefully examining the girl's face. He could no longer see the despair she had just experienced, and he felt a little relieved.
It's good that it didn't have any impact...
Perhaps she is stronger than she thinks.
“With her domestic connections shut down, Qi Qiulin will definitely try to escape. Some of the parties she invested in in the UK have been suspended. She’s being pursued now, and Qi Yun is under investigation. She’s caught in the middle. If she’s pushed to the limit, who knows what she might do? So you have to be careful wherever you go. There are already enough ways to get her sentenced, but you absolutely cannot let your guard down and you must not rush.”
Lee Byung-seung carefully instructed, "You can't risk your life for someone like that, okay?"
Mu Yiran gripped the strap of her handbag tightly, turned around and said to him, “I don’t care what kind of punishment she will receive, but I must avenge the murder of my parents. Thank you, Uncle Cheng, I will be careful.”
"…………"
Watching the girl's resolute departure, Li Bingcheng was truly worried.
It still doesn't work...
Even with him alone, he still couldn't guarantee her safety.
After hesitating for a while, Li Bingcheng dialed Shi Youxi's number, but no one answered. He frowned and dialed another number.
Mu Yiran walked a few steps to the parking lot. Ai Ni had already driven the car out. Before Mu Yiran could get there, a figure suddenly blocked her way.
Mu Yiran, who was about to swing her bag at him, paused. "...Lu Tingyi? What are you doing here?"
"Ranran..." Lu Tingyi was a little flustered and reached out to pull her, but Mu Yiran avoided him.
"What are you doing? Your fiancée is trending on social media for plagiarism, and you want to trend for attempted rape, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Tingyi blushed. "That's not what I meant! And Qingyu and I only pretended to be engaged because my uncle was going to have surgery—"
"It has nothing to do with me! Get out of my way!" Mu Yiran was about to let him go, but the man wouldn't let it go.
"Ranran, that Li Zhenrong from last time... I... it was my fault. I introduced you to him without checking his intentions! I'm sorry! Because Qingyu said she wanted to mend things with you, so... I only saw the news the next day when I boarded the plane—"
"What exactly are you trying to say? If you're here to apologize on behalf of Wen Qingyu, then you'd better get plastic surgery and castration before you come here. Otherwise, don't waste my time, get lost!"
Seeing that the tall woman was about to protect Mu Yiran and leave, Lu Tingyi had no choice but to abandon his idea of having a private chat with her and quickly said:
“I…I saw Uncle Cong! I heard what he said to Li Bingcheng…” He glanced at the private restaurant, “Wen’s board of directors…is it because of this? Is that why you…”
Mu Yiran finally looked at him properly, "So what if it is, so what if it isn't?"
“I know you’ve never believed that your aunt and uncle’s deaths were an accident, but…” Lu Tingyi’s voice lowered, “until we find out the truth, maybe… it’s all a misunderstanding!”
Mu Yiran was completely amused by Lu Tingyi's words. "Lu Tingyi, do you have any conscience?! Just because you were taken in by the Wen family for a few years, you became their watchdog? If my parents hadn't taken you in for a meal back then, you would have been nothing more than an illegitimate child who could only stand outside the door with the dogs!"
"Do you have to talk like that!" Lu Tingyi was also a little annoyed. He felt ashamed and blushed, but he didn't understand at all.
"I'm only thinking of you! You're turning your back on your only family! You'd rather listen to outsiders than think things through! How do you know they're not scheming and lying to you?"
"Regardless of what your aunt and uncle are like now, they truly cared for and loved you back then—"
"Concern?! Care?!" Mu Yiran barely smiled.
"They care about me, so they let Wen Qingyu steal my mother's things. They care about me, so they coveted my inheritance and sent me abroad regardless of my fate. They care about me! So they sent me to someone else's bed under the guise of the Wen family's interests!"
Lu Tingyi was speechless from the very first sentence she uttered; he didn't even have the confidence to refute her.
"...I...I don't know these things..."
Looking at his utterly devastated face, Mu Yiran felt an overwhelming sense of disgust. "If you're so moved by this kind of concern, feel free to keep it to yourself. I'm not worthy of it!"
"Don't blame me for not saying this, Lu Tingyi, regardless of whether the Wen family actually murdered my parents or not, no matter how much they were involved, I will make sure they suffer a terrible death!"
Lu Tingyi chased after her and grabbed her arm. "Ranran, do you know what you're doing?! Have you considered that you'll get yourself into trouble if you continue like this?!"
He couldn't help but think that the girl's transformation began after she got together with the man Wen Qingyu had mentioned.
The man she had been visiting at the hospital every day for the past few days, the man who had rescued her from the hotel—Lu Tingyi felt an indescribable unease welling up inside her.
The Mu Yiran before him seemed to have completely detached herself from his memory and life, becoming utterly unfamiliar.
"Is it because the man who saved you that night said he'd help you get revenge? You'll be ruined by him! Ranran, you're clearly not that kind of person—"
"Smack!"
Mu Yiran slapped his hand away hard and sneered, "I'm really letting you down. This is just the kind of person I am."
"If you don't want to get caught up in this, then get as far away as possible, and don't even think about helping Wen Qingyu and Wen Zaosi!"
"Ranran! I only did that because I care about you—"
"I don't know what you mean by 'caring' and 'being concerned'..."
Mu Yiran interrupted him, her eyes reddening. She took a step back to distance herself from the person in front of her. At that moment, she suddenly thought of the person who had been standing behind her every time for the past month.
"......."
From the restaurant until now, the pretense I had maintained for so long in front of Lee Byung-sung crumbled the moment I thought of him.
"The kind of care and love I know is to be unreasonable and biased towards me no matter what, regardless of whether I am kind, innocent and upright, and even if I know about each other's ugliness and disgrace, I will still go down to hell with him."
Under the blazing sun, Mu Yiran's vision blurred, and she seemed to be talking to herself:
"Yes...to sink together..."
No further words were needed; Mu Yiran had no other thoughts.
She suddenly felt a strong urge to go find Shi Youxi.
But before they could get on the bus, they were stopped again.
This time, it was Lee Byung-seung who rushed out of the restaurant.
Mu Yiran frowned: "Uncle Cheng—"
"Ranran! Shi Youxi's mother, Bai Shengsheng, she..."
"She's gone!"
“............”
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